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 Posted: Mon Feb 21, 2005 10:14 am
Man. I was laughing unbelieveably hard at some of these posts.
The last musical we had put on, Once Upon A Mattress, I was in the dressing room fixing my makeup, and missed hearing it, but everyone told me later that during the show, the minstrel's mic was hot when he went to the bathroom in the mens dressing room... So the audience was hearing one of the songs, and during the pauses you could hear "SHHHHHHHHhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh" (the sound of peeing) and then they heard "Ahhhhh, that felt great." Then the toilet flushing. Apparently it was soft, but still quite hilarious.
this is pretty weak, but if you were there, it was funny as hell. We had a sound board where you can plug in numbers and the desired sound effect came out when you pressed enter. The scene where there was supposed to be a frog croaking so the two flies would be scared and run away. The girl hit the button and instead of a croak, out came a horribly loud booming BOING. Boing like from a spring. This poor girl instead of reseting it, decides to press it over and over as fast as she can. All we heard for five minutes was BOING BOING BO-BOING B-B-B-BOI-BOING The actor goes "OH NO! IT'S THE BOING! I MUST RUN!" and promptly trips off the stage. People are screaming about ambulances, and still all you could hear was BOING BOING B-BBOING! it was great.
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Posted: Wed Feb 23, 2005 6:57 pm
So I was just in a production of The Music Man. Technically fantastic with a wonderful chorus (if I say so myself) but because of our marvellous techies getting the scene changes done so quickly, our Miss Marion had even LESS time for her quick changes.
Opening night, during the library scene, she had like ONE button done on her shirt (it buttoned from the back) and she went on with only one high-heel. So as she gimped on stage, every other step exposed her back. Luckilly, there were only a few seconds where her back was to the audience and the blouse wasn't always open. Poor girl tried to keep her shoulders back, but it's difficult to do when you have ONE 2 1/2 inch character shoe on and you're attempting to sashay all around the stage. Just a little.
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High-functioning Werewolf
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Posted: Fri Feb 25, 2005 6:23 pm
WickedElphie Once during Ten Little Indians, someone messed up and skipped almost five pages of the script and we didn't know what the hell to do! People were going on stage, people going off, there were the wrong number of figures on the mantle so we had to improve for like five minutes. It was horrible! Something similar happened to me in 1984...our O'Brien left about about a page and a half. The guy playing Winston didn't really cover her like he should have, and she didn't realize the mistake she'd made until she got offstage. Fortunately it was the night we had our smallest audience and hardly anyone noticed.
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Posted: Fri Feb 25, 2005 7:58 pm
LuvCartoonz Man. I was laughing unbelieveably hard at some of these posts. The last musical we had put on, Once Upon A Mattress, I was in the dressing room fixing my makeup, and missed hearing it, but everyone told me later that during the show, the minstrel's mic was hot when he went to the bathroom in the mens dressing room... So the audience was hearing one of the songs, and during the pauses you could hear "SHHHHHHHHhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh" (the sound of peeing) and then they heard "Ahhhhh, that felt great." Then the toilet flushing. Apparently it was soft, but still quite hilarious. this is pretty weak, but if you were there, it was funny as hell. We had a sound board where you can plug in numbers and the desired sound effect came out when you pressed enter. The scene where there was supposed to be a frog croaking so the two flies would be scared and run away. The girl hit the button and instead of a croak, out came a horribly loud booming BOING. Boing like from a spring. This poor girl instead of reseting it, decides to press it over and over as fast as she can. All we heard for five minutes was BOING BOING BO-BOING B-B-B-BOI-BOING The actor goes "OH NO! IT'S THE BOING! I MUST RUN!" and promptly trips off the stage. People are screaming about ambulances, and still all you could hear was BOING BOING B-BBOING! it was great. Heh. I like the boing one. Definately sounds like something that would happen at my school.
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Posted: Fri Feb 25, 2005 8:51 pm
I remember in middle school we did some lame little play called "It's all Greek To Me," which was supposedly some spoof on Greek mythology. Anyway, I was doubling up as a costume assistant between my scenes and all of the togas started unraveling half-way through the show...of course, what can you expect when middle school boys are putting on their own togas and telling you they just forgot to take off their sneakers before going on stage? It was a nightmare...and just at that moment, one of the girls runs up and announces that I have five seconds to re-attach this massive pair of wings that have broken in half. I don't think I've every used so many safety-pins in my life...
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Posted: Sat Mar 12, 2005 8:21 pm
Two bad experiences I've personally had was that for the production of "Annie Get Your Gun" I was in, I wore the ugliest dress ever in the ball scene. While everyone else had soft color pastel dresses, I had a bright bright red dress with a large black stripe down the front. It was too tight for me and too short for me, but it was the only costume that was left. To make it worse, I needed white gloves to go with it. The only gloves that I could find were white dusting gloves that looked like Mickey Mouse gloves -_-
My second bad incident was only a month or two ago when I was one of the leads in the play, Check Please. To my dismay I didn't just lose my voice, I also came down with the flu. I was so sick that I barely could move. Sadly, I had also gotten my understudy sick which made her lose her voice also. So it was either me or her. The day of rehearsal right before the play my mom said she didn't want me to be in the play because I was sick. I had to fake a temperature and pretend to feel better which in reality I had a temp of 102 and felt like pure crap. I went on stage that night, chugging water, cough syrup, and eating cough drops every chance that I got. My voice was still horrible and I felt like passing out...luckily I didn't though.
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Posted: Mon Mar 14, 2005 4:04 pm
This boy keeps yelling Macbeth every day before a performance when we're all backstage.
So far this has happened:
Car accident
Dead grandmother
Teacher broke her arm and can't come back for months.
Don't say Macbeth!
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Posted: Sat Mar 19, 2005 12:39 pm
Torch24601 This boy keeps yelling Macbeth every day before a performance when we're all backstage. So far this has happened: Car accident Dead grandmother Teacher broke her arm and can't come back for months. Don't say Macbeth! Hell yes, the curse is real! A girl accidentally said it the day of a performance yesterday and a techie (the only one who actually has any idea what she's doing more than 50% of the time) called up deathly ill. Her stand in had never been rehearsed and, as luck would have it, missed his cue because he was playing grab-a** with one of the actresses. I don't know if there's any truth to the Curse of the Scottish Play, but I'm not taking any chances. And if that kid starts threatening his evil luck again, grab some duct tape of the tech cart and tie the little b*****d down. Don't be afraid to wrap the tape around his head a few times either. eek
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Posted: Sat Mar 19, 2005 1:21 pm
Hmm...this might just spark a new topic...*posty posty*
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Posted: Sat Mar 19, 2005 10:11 pm
sad_loved_girl Torch24601 This boy keeps yelling Macbeth every day before a performance when we're all backstage. So far this has happened: Car accident Dead grandmother Teacher broke her arm and can't come back for months. Don't say Macbeth! Hell yes, the curse is real! A girl accidentally said it the day of a performance yesterday and a techie (the only one who actually has any idea what she's doing more than 50% of the time) called up deathly ill. Her stand in had never been rehearsed and, as luck would have it, missed his cue because he was playing grab-a** with one of the actresses. I don't know if there's any truth to the Curse of the Scottish Play, but I'm not taking any chances. And if that kid starts threatening his evil luck again, grab some duct tape of the tech cart and tie the little b*****d down. Don't be afraid to wrap the tape around his head a few times either. eek We actually had to say the name DURING a play that I was in...Luckily it followed by the supposed counter-curse with it during theatre...you have to gather around in a circle and move around saying "evil evil go away, don't return another day, we won't do the Scottish Play" then everyone spins around and one person throws garlic into the air... Don't ask...just don't... sweatdrop But atleast we didn't have bad luck!!
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Posted: Sun Mar 20, 2005 1:12 pm
Then there was the time my troupe was playing aseries of shakespeare scenes followed by a parody or a modernized version. I had to play Maria from "West Side Story" (even though I'm pasty white and the guy who played Tony is Philipino...that was different)
We did the balcony scene so they hoisted me on a rickity ladder(the thing was going to fall apart at any moment) and had me sing "Tonight". I'm an alto II, singing a Soprano I part isn't exactly easy for me y'know? Especially trying to sing it while fearing for my life while the microphone keeps dying on me. But all in all it was fun.
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